• OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    Yet, they popularized loot box mechanics and NFTs. Steam acts a big giant DRM. It puts free mods behind its DRM as well, since you can’t get mods in the Workshop, unless you own the game on Steam. It has enabled sneaky regional pricing for years. There’s no guarantee what will happen to your library if Steam servers go down one day. And there’s very little content curation, which means its catalogue has thousands of scam games, some of which are probably used for money-laundering and online/phone scam purposes.

    Yeah, they are not trying to aggressively milk every single penny from every single pocket, but some of their decisions have caused great harm to the gaming community. And it doesn’t help that they are a giant monopoly.